Ho chi minh city university of pedagogy

A special exhibition of two collections of Ao Dai (Vietnamese traditional dress) by renowned designers will open at the Ao Dai Museum in Long Thuan Garden in District 9 on March 7.

They include Ao Dai owned by outstanding women working in politics, culture and arts, such as Dr Trinh Thi Hoa, the former director of the HCM City History Museum, and veteran soldier Dang Hong Nhut, who have both encouraged young women to study and develop their careers as well as live more independently.

The museum displays Ao Dai owned by Nguyen Thi Dinh, the first woman major general to serve in the Vietnam People’s Army, former Vice State President Nguyen Thi Binh, and some of HCM City’s well-known cai luong (reformed opera) artists, including Kim Cuong and Bach Tuyet.

A photo exhibition featuring Vietnamese women in Ao Dai will also be held on the occasion.

The two exhibitions will open at 206/19/30 Long Thuan Street and will close at the end of the month.

Fashion designer Si Hoang, the museum’s owner, said Ao Dai Week 2021 promotes traditional cultural identity and the image of Vietnamese women.

Hoang spent 12 years to establish the museum thanks to his love for the traditional attire. “The long robes have aesthetic, historic and cultural value,” he said.

In Hanoi, the union and Museum of Vietnamese Women have worked together to open a photo exhibition of 358 images featuring Vietnamese women, their place, and their contributions to the country.

Captured by veteran artist Dinh Quang Thanh, the works on display portray women and their heroic activities in the national resistance wars against France and the US.

On March 5, the Trade Union of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee officially began the work to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union. The work included planting many trees and installing bookshelves featuring publications on President Ho Chi Minh and national leaders; the traditions of the Union; professional skills for youth union members; and start-up knowledge, among others.

Also, on the same day, the Provincial Youth Union, Youth Federation, and the High Command of the Border Guards of the central province of Nghe An jointly organised a programme entitled “March in the Border” in the highland commune of Muong Ai, Ky Son District.

At the program, the organisers handed over a set of computers to the officers and soldiers of the Muong Ai Border Guard; over 3,000 notebooks to students living in difficult circumstances; medical equipment and 3,000 masks, 50 bottles of antiseptic solution to officers and soldiers at two COVID-19 anti-epidemic posts.

Also on March 5, in the district of Bat Xat in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai, the Bat Xat District Youth Union organised activities in response to Youth Month 2021 with the participation of nearly 200 members and young people.

The union presented five gifts worth VND5 million each to needy households in the district; planted trees along border roads; donated five tonnes of cement and directly participated in the construction of more than 300 metres of rural roads; visited and presented gifts to two border guard posts protecting against the COVID-19 epidemic; and presented 100 national flags and gifts to the A Mu Sung Border Guard station.

The Youth Union of Agencies and Enterprises of the northern mountainous province of Son La has recently awarded 10 scholarships to needy youth union members, and five gifts to policy beneficiary families in Chieng Ngan Commune, Son La City.

By Ca Dao – Translated by Anh Quan

Minister Long chaired a teleconference which was organised on March 6 and connected with 700 places across Vietnam to launch the vaccination plan and provide related training for medical workers nationwide in the use and storage of the vaccine, as well as the treatment of post-injection complications.

He informed the teleconference that the vaccination programme will start on March 8, although the first batch of vaccine arrived in Vietnam on February 24.

“As the vaccine is new, we need to carry out thoroughly,” Long said, adding that Vietnam has to obtain an accreditation certificate from the producer and reassess the safety index of the batch of vaccine.

Because of the limited number of vaccine, the ministry cannot allocate for all 63 provinces and cities, but for 13 pandemic-hit localities, with priority given to Hai Duong province – Vietnam’s largest outbreak at present, he added.

The minister asked localities which have yet to receive the vaccine to prepare and make training programmes as the ministry will allocate vaccines to them when more are transported to Vietnam in March.

COVAC and AstraZeneca have agreed to provide 30 million doses each for Vietnam this year, the minister said, adding the ministry asked the producers to hand over the vaccines to Vietnam before September and is negotiating with Pfizer to buy an additional 30 million doses from this producer.

The ministry has assigned three deputy ministers to be responsible for directing the vaccinations as this kind of vaccine is injected for the first time and injected for adults.

Vietnam will conduct screening check-ups before infections to ensure safety, although the process takes more time. The first injections, he went on, will be given to people working on the front line of the fight against COVID-19, including health, army, police, customs and immigration personnel.

People getting the shots will be monitored via digital health records and receive e-certificates for their completion of inoculation.